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Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal. 2017 Nov 1;22 (6):e708-15. Obesity and periodontitis e708 Journal section: Medically compromised patients in Dentistry Publication Types: Review Association between obesity and periodontal disease. A systematic review of epidemiological studies and controlled clinical trials Mayte Martinez-Herrera 1 , Javier Silvestre-Rangil 2 , Francisco-Javier Silvestre 3,4 1 Dentist. Grant fellow (VALI+d) of the Regional Ministry Education of Valencian Community. Special Patients Unit, Depart- ment of Stomatology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 2 DDS, PhD. Associate Professor, Special Patients Unit, Department of Stomatology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 3 DDS, PhD. Assistant Professor, Special Patients Unit, Department of Stomatology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 4 MD. Service of Stomatology, University Hospital Doctor Peset, Av. Gaspar Aguilar 90, 46017 Valencia, Spain Correspondence: Clínica Odontológica Universitaria Unidad de Odontología en Pacientes Especiales Gascó Oliag 1, 46021 -Valencia, Spain [email protected] Received: 15/12/2016 Accepted: 21/06/2017 Abstract Background: Obesity is a very prevalent chronic disease worldwide and has been suggested to increase suscepti- bility of periodontitis. The aim of this paper was to provide a systematic review of the association between obesity and periodontal disease, and to determine the possible mechanisms underlying in this relationship. Material and Methods: A literature search was carried out in the databases PubMed-Medline and Embase. Con- trolled clinical trials and observational studies identifying periodontal and body composition parameters were selected. Each article was subjected to data extraction and quality assessment. Results: A total of 284 articles were identified, of which 64 were preselected and 28 were finally included in the review. All the studies described an association between obesity and periodontal disease, except two articles that reported no such association. Obesity is characterized by a chronic subclinical inflammation that could exacerbate other chronic inflammatory disorders like as periodontitis. Conclusions: The association between obesity and periodontitis was consistent with a compelling pattern of increased risk of periodontitis in overweight or obese individuals. Although the underlying pathophysiological mechanism remains unclear, it has been pointed out that the development of insulin resistance as a consequence of a chronic inflammatory state and oxidative stress could be implicated in the association between obesity and periodontitis. Further prospective longitudinal studies are needed to define the magnitude of this association and to elucidate the causal biological mechanisms. Key words: Periodontal disease, periodontitis, periodontal infection, obesity, abdominal obesity. doi:10.4317/medoral.21786 http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4317/medoral.21786 Introduction Obesity has been described as one of the most neglected public health problems, affecting both developed and developing countries (1). The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially in the last few decades (2,3). In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that around 600 million obese adults worldwide were obese (4), and a further increase is expected in the fu- ture due to increased consumption of high-calorie diets and a sedentary lifestyle. Martinez-Herrera M, Silvestre-Rangil J, Silvestre FJ. Association be- tween obesity and periodontal disease. A systematic review of epidemio- logical studies and controlled clinical trials. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bu- . Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bu- Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bu- cal. 2017 Nov 1;22 (6):e708-15. http://www.medicinaoral.com/medoralfree01/v22i6/medoralv22i6p708.pdf Article Number: 21786 http://www.medicinaoral.com/ © Medicina Oral S. L. C.I.F. B 96689336 - pISSN 1698-4447 - eISSN: 1698-6946 eMail: [email protected] Indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded Journal Citation Reports Index Medicus, MEDLINE, PubMed Scopus, Embase and Emcare Indice Médico Español

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Journal section: Medically compromised patients in DentistryPublication Types: Review

Association between obesity and periodontal disease. A systematic review of epidemiological studies and controlled clinical trials

Mayte Martinez-Herrera 1, Javier Silvestre-Rangil 2, Francisco-Javier Silvestre 3,4

1 Dentist. Grant fellow (VALI+d) of the Regional Ministry Education of Valencian Community. Special Patients Unit, Depart-ment of Stomatology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain2 DDS, PhD. Associate Professor, Special Patients Unit, Department of Stomatology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain3 DDS, PhD. Assistant Professor, Special Patients Unit, Department of Stomatology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain4 MD. Service of Stomatology, University Hospital Doctor Peset, Av. Gaspar Aguilar 90, 46017 Valencia, Spain

Correspondence:Clínica Odontológica UniversitariaUnidad de Odontología en Pacientes EspecialesGascó Oliag 1, 46021 -Valencia, [email protected]

Received: 15/12/2016Accepted: 21/06/2017

AbstractBackground: Obesity is a very prevalent chronic disease worldwide and has been suggested to increase suscepti-bility of periodontitis. The aim of this paper was to provide a systematic review of the association between obesity and periodontal disease, and to determine the possible mechanisms underlying in this relationship.Material and Methods: A literature search was carried out in the databases PubMed-Medline and Embase. Con-trolled clinical trials and observational studies identifying periodontal and body composition parameters were selected. Each article was subjected to data extraction and quality assessment. Results: A total of 284 articles were identified, of which 64 were preselected and 28 were finally included in the review. All the studies described an association between obesity and periodontal disease, except two articles that reported no such association. Obesity is characterized by a chronic subclinical inflammation that could exacerbate other chronic inflammatory disorders like as periodontitis.Conclusions: The association between obesity and periodontitis was consistent with a compelling pattern of increased risk of periodontitis in overweight or obese individuals. Although the underlying pathophysiological mechanism remains unclear, it has been pointed out that the development of insulin resistance as a consequence of a chronic inflammatory state and oxidative stress could be implicated in the association between obesity and periodontitis. Further prospective longitudinal studies are needed to define the magnitude of this association and to elucidate the causal biological mechanisms.

Key words: Periodontal disease, periodontitis, periodontal infection, obesity, abdominal obesity.

doi:10.4317/medoral.21786http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.4317/medoral.21786

IntroductionObesity has been described as one of the most neglected public health problems, affecting both developed and developing countries (1). The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially in the last few decades (2,3). In

2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that around 600 million obese adults worldwide were obese (4), and a further increase is expected in the fu-ture due to increased consumption of high-calorie diets and a sedentary lifestyle.

Martinez-Herrera M, Silvestre-Rangil J, Silvestre FJ. Association be-tween obesity and periodontal disease. A systematic review of epidemio-logical studies and controlled clinical trials. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bu-. Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bu- Med Oral Patol Oral Cir Bu-cal. 2017 Nov 1;22 (6):e708-15. http://www.medicinaoral.com/medoralfree01/v22i6/medoralv22i6p708.pdf

Article Number: 21786 http://www.medicinaoral.com/© Medicina Oral S. L. C.I.F. B 96689336 - pISSN 1698-4447 - eISSN: 1698-6946eMail: [email protected] Indexed in:

Science Citation Index ExpandedJournal Citation ReportsIndex Medicus, MEDLINE, PubMedScopus, Embase and Emcare Indice Médico Español

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Obesity is usually defined as body mass index (BMI = kg/m2). Specifically, overweight is defined as a BMI be-tween 25.0-29.9 kg/m2 and obesity is defined as a BMI of ≥ 30.0 kg/m2 (1-3). The exception is found in Asian regions, where overweight is defined as BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2, since in this setting obesity-related complications have been observed at comparatively lower BMI values (4). BMI is an indicator of total adiposity, but does not assess body mass distribution, so other parameters such as waist circumference (WC) or waist/hip ratio (WHR) are usually used (4). WC ≥ 102 cm in males and ≥ 88 cm in females, and WHR > 0.90 in males and > 0.85 in females indicate abdominal obesity associated to an increased risk of morbidity (1-3). These anthropometric determinations show a close correlation to the amount of visceral adipose tissue, which has been shown to be metabolically more active and secretes larger amounts of cytokines and hormones compared to subcutaneous adipose tissue (1-3).Obesity is a chronic metabolic disease that predisposes to a variety of comorbidities including arterial hyperten-sion, type 2 diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis and car-diovascular diseases (3). Furthermore, obesity has been suggested to be a risk factor for periodontitis (1-3). Periodontal disease is an infectious and inflammatory disorder of tooth-supporting structures resulting from the interaction between pathogenic bacteria and the host immune response (1). Activation of the host immune system, primarily for protective purposes, eventually leads to destruction of tissues through the synthesis and release of cytokines, proinflammatory mediators and metalloproteinases (5).Periodontitis is among the 10 most prevalent chronic dis-eases affecting the world’s population (6). In recent years, research has focused on the relationship between perio-dontitis and systemic disorders such as diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular diseases and obesity.The association between obesity and periodontitis is one of the most recent fields of research in periodontal medicine and the possible underlying biological mecha-nisms remain unclear. However, adipose tissue releases proinflammatory cytokines and hormones globally re-ferred to as adipocytokines, which induce inflammato-ry processes and oxidative stress disorders, generating a similar pathophysiology between the both diseases (2,3).This association was first reported in animals in 1977 by Perlstein and Bissada, and in humans in 1998 by Saito et al. Since then, the hypothesis that obesity is a risk factor for periodontitis has been evidenced by several epidemiological studies (7-29). Therefore, the aim of the present study was to offer a systematic review of the evidence on the association between obesity and periodontal disease, and of the possible mechanisms involved in this relationship. The

following questions were raised in this regard: Do obese subjects have more periodontal disease? Is periodontal disease more aggressive in such population? What bio-logical mechanisms are involved in the association be-tween obesity and periodontal disease?

Material and MethodsIn the present study the PubMed and Embase databases were used for the collection of articles. We performed a first exploratory search through PubMed in the Medline database, using the following key words in different combinations: periodontal diseases OR periodontitis OR periodontal infection AND obesity OR abdominal obesity. The filters used in this first search were publica-tions in English and studies conducted in humans: “Peri-odontal diseases”[Majr] AND “Obesity”[MeSH] AND (“humans”[MeSH Terms] AND English[lang]). Based on these keywords we obtained a total of 192 references, and the corresponding titles and abstracts were then read to compile the publications of interest.The inclusion criteria were: controlled clinical trials, cohort and case-control studies assessing obesity and periodontal disease, studies in adults (over 18 years of age), articles published in English and after the year 2000.Clinical cases and case series, non-human studies, stud-ies in individuals less than 18 years of age and published in languages other than English were excluded. Fur-thermore, we excluded studies on metabolic syndrome and those in which the periodontal status was only as-sessed by tooth loss, oral hygiene, gingival appearance or use of dental prostheses. Studies that did not exclude diabetic patients or individuals with systemic inflam-matory disorders, or which made no adjustment for such confounding factors, were also excluded. A complementary search was subsequently performed in the Embase database, entering the same keywords and considering the same inclusion and exclusion crite-ria (‘periodontal diseases’ AND obesity AND [English]/lim AND [humans]/lim). From the articles obtained we discarded those that had already been identified in the first search in PubMed; and we obtained 2 articles that were exclusively found in Embase.

Results - Discussion The flowchart corresponding to the search process is shown in Figure 1. The search identified a total of 248 articles, of which 64 were preselected on the basis of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and 28 were finally in-cluded in the review: 19 observational studies (7-14,16-18,20-22,24,26-29) described in Table 1, and 9 clinical trials of periodontal treatment (30-38) reported in Table 2. Studies are listed chronologically from the most re-cent article, based on the publication date (and then in alphabetical order within that same year).

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An association between periodontal disease and obe-sity has been demonstrated in the worldwide literature. Most of the 19 observational studies were of a cross-sectional nature, with very few prospective longitudi-nal studies (8-10,13,16,22). The results of some cross-sectional studies show that obese individuals have more periodontal disease than the normal weight population, and some publications have found this association to be stronger as the obesity level increases (11). Some of the reviewed prospective studies (8,9,13,22) suggest that overweight, obesity, weight gain and a large WC may be risk factors for the development or worsening of periodontitis. Three prospective studies (9,10,13) found a direct association between obesity and the subsequent development of periodontitis. In turn, two of these stud-ies (10,13) also determined a direct association between overweight and the development of periodontitis.Although most studies evidence an association between

obesity and periodontal disease, of the 19 observational studies, two (16,17) described no significant association between obesity and periodontitis. Furthermore, one of them reported an inverse relationship between obesity and periodontal clinical attachment loss (17). Howev-er, these results lack a solid basis, since these studies use multiple variables using different cut-off points for evaluate obesity and periodontal disease. Most of studies that reported an association between obesity and periodontitis focused on disease preva-lence, and three informed of the extent and severity of periodontal disease (14,21,28).In general, all the studies evaluated anthropometric and periodontal parameters to determine the association between the two disorders. All of them evaluated the degree of obesity by calculating BMI, and some of them also included other measures of abdominal obesity such as WC, WHR and, in some cases, even percentage body

Fig. 1. Flowchart of the search process.

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F: females, M: males, DM: diabetes mellitus, BMI: body mass index, WHR: waist/hip ratio, WC: waist circumference, PD: probing depth, CAL: clinical attachment loss, PI: plaque index, BOP: bleeding of probing, PCI: Periodontal Community Index, OW: overweight, ABL: alveo-lar bone loss, FFM: free fat mass.

Article Study design Country

nSex Control

groupExclusion DM

andinflammatory

diseases

Definition of obesity

Definition of Periodontitis

Significantassociation

Buduneli et al. 2014 (7)

Case-control Turkey 91 F Yes Yes BMI WHR

PD, CAL, PI, BOP

Yes (CAL, PI) No (PD, BOP)

Ekuni et al. 2014 (8) Cohort Japan 224 F/M Yes Yes BMI PCI, BOP, PD, PI, CI

Yes (BMI, PCI) No (BMI, BOP

and PD)

Gorman et al. 2012(9)

Cohort United Kingdom

1038 M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI, WC WHR

ABL, PD, CAL Yes (obesity, WC)

No (OW)

Jimenez et al. 2012(10)

Cohort United Kingdom

36910

M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI, WC WHR (Self-

reported)

Self-reported (Yes/No)

Yes (OW, obesity, WC)

Luiz Pataro et al.2012 (11)

Case-control Brazil 594 F Yes No (Adjust.) BMI BOP, suppuration, PD, CAL, PI, Periodontitis

Yes (obesity and OW)

Kim et al. 2011 (12) Case-control Korea 4246 F/M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI WC

PCI Yes (WC) No (BMI)

Morita et al. 2011(13) Cohort Japan 3590 F/M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI PD, Periodontitis

Yes (OW, obesity in F)

No (obesity in M)

Saxlin et al. 2011(14) Case-control Finland 2784 F/M Yes Yes BMI, WC % fat

PDPI

Yes (BMI, % fat and WC)

Saxlin et al. 2010 (16) Cohort Finland 396 F/M Yes Yes BMI Periodontitis (PD)

No (OW, obesity)

Kongstad et al. 2009(17)

Case-control Denmark 1504 F/M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI CAL, BOP, PD, PI

No

Saxlin et al. 2009 (18) Cohort Finland 425 F/M No Yes BMI PD, CAL, PI Yes

Saxlin et al. 2008 (20) Case-control Finland 1297 F/M Yes Yes BMI PD, PI Yes

Ylöstalo et al. 2008(21)

Case-control Finland 2841 F/M Yes Yes BMI, WC % fat

PD, PI Yes

Linden et al. 2007(22)

Cohort Ireland 1362 M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI PD, CAL, Periodontitis

Yes (obesity)

Genco et al. 2005 (24) Case-control EEUU 12367

F/M Yes Yes BMI PD, CAL, BOP, CI, Periodontitis

Yes

Saito et al. 2005 (26) Cohort Japan 584 F Yes No (Adjust.) BMI, WC WHR, % fat

PD, CAL, PI Yes

Al-Zahrani et al. 2003(27)

Case-control EEUU 13665

F/M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI WC

PD, CAL, Periodontitis

Yes

Wood et al. 2003 (28) Case-control EEUU 17660

F/M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI, WC WHR, FFM

CAL, PD, BOP, CI

Yes

Saito et al. 2001 (29) Case-control Japan 643 F/M Yes No (Adjust.) BMI, WHR % fat

PD Yes

Table 1. Epidemiological studies on the association between obesity and periodontal disease.

fat (14,21,26,28,29). A stronger correlation has been ob-served between periodontitis and anthropometric mea-sures of visceral fat accumulation than between perio-dontitis and BMI. In fact, one of the studies reported a significant relationship between periodontal disease and WC, without correlation to BMI (12). This is consistent

with the fact that abdominal adipose tissue secretes a diversity of adipocytokines, which induce inflamma-tory processes and oxidative stress disorders, resulting in a chronic activation of the acute phase response and the development of insulin resistance (IR).In the same way, some studies identified a direct asso-

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Article Study design

Country n Sex Exclusion DM and

inflammatory diseases

Follow-up

Definition of Periodontitis

Periodontaltreatment

Exposure Impact obesity on

periodontaltreatment response

Balli et al. 2016 (30)

Clinical trial Turkey 80 M/F Yes 6 weeks Periodontitis (PD, CAL,

GI, BOP, PI)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-CP vs. NW-

CP.

No

Duzagac et al.2016 (31)

Clinical trial Turkey 45 M/F Yes 3 months

Periodontitis(PD, CAL, PI,

GI, BOP)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-CP vs. Non-obese-CPvs. Non-

CP

No. Negative in serum CRP

andadipocytokines levels

Bouaziz et al.2015 (32)

Clinical trial France 36 M/F Yes 3 and 6 months

Periodontitis(PD, CAL, PI,

BOP)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-CP vs. NW-

CP

Yes

Dias Gonçalves etal. 2015 (33)

Clinical trial Brazil 48 M/F Yes 3 and 6 months

Periodontitis(PI, BOP,

suppuration,PD, CAL)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-CP vs. Non-obese-CP

Yes

Öngöz Dede et al.2015 (34)

Clinical trial Turkey 90 M/F Yes 1 month Periodontitis (PD, CAL,

GI, BOP, PI)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-G and

Obese-CP vs. NW-G and NW-

CP

No

Suvan et al. 2014(35)

Secondanalysis

(data of 5 clinical trials)

UnitedKingdomI

taly

260 M/F Yes 2 months

Periodontitis(PD, %PD>4 mm, CAL,

BOP)

Non-surgical

SRP

OW and obese vs.

NW

Yes

Altay et al. 2013(36)

Clinical trial Turkey 46 M/F Yes 3 months

Periodontitis(CAL, PD, PI,

GI, BOP)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-CP vs.

Non-obese-CP

No

Al-Zahrani & AlGhamdi 2012(37)

Clinical trial Saudi Arabia

40 F Yes 2 months

Periodontitis(CAL, PD, PI,

BOP)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-CP vs.

Non-obese-CP

No

Zuza et al. 2011(38)

Clinical trial Brazil 52 M/F Yes 3 months

Periodontitis(PD, CAL,

GI, PI, BOP)

Non-surgical

SRP

Obese-CP vs.

Non-obese-CP

No

Table 2. Studies of periodontal treatment in subjects with obesity and normal weight.

M: males, F: females, PD: probing depth, CAL: clinical attachment level, GI: gingival index, BOP: bleeding on probing, PI: plaque index; SRP: scaling and root planning, O: obese, OW: overweight, CP: chronic periodontitis, NW: normal weight, PCR: C-reactive protein, G: gingivitis.

ciation between periodontitis and overweight (10,11,13), whereas in the study by Gorman et al. was established a correlation between periodontal disease and obesity but not overweight (9). Two longitudinal cohort studies (8,9) determined that weight gain was directly associated to the development of periodontitis. In contrast, the study by Linden et al. found no association between weight gain from 21 to 60-70 years of age and the severity of periodontitis, determining that a high BMI at an early age is not predictive of periodontitis in old age (22).The evaluation of periodontal disease was seen to vary greatly in the research setting. Some studies evaluated and compared periodontal parameters such as probing depth (PD), clinical attachment level (CAL), bleeding on

probing (BOP), gingival index (GI), or plaque index (PI) and calculus index (CI). The larger studies (8,12) used the community periodontal index (CPI) and restricted measurements to representative teeth or quadrants. In turn, some studies established a diagnosis of periodon-titis and classified the population according to the pres-ence or absence of periodontitis, determining prevalence. The greatest agreement among the different studies was referred to the definition of periodontal disease as PD ≥ 4 mm and CAL ≥ 3 mm, although different definitions and combinations were employed. The nine interventional studies used the different periodontal parameters (PD, CAL, BOP, PI, GI) to assess periodontal disease and the changes following periodontal treatment.

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Of the 28 articles reviewed, three included only males (9,10,22), four included only females (7,11,26,37), and the remainder included individuals of both sexes. Of the latter, three studies (13,14,17) analyzed males and females separately, and another 10 articles adjusted the analysis by gender (8,12,16,18,20,21,24,27-29). Some studies (15,24) indicate that males are at a greater risk of developing periodontitis than females, while other ar-ticles (13,39) suggest that females may be more vulner-able to periodontitis, due to hormonal fluctuations that increase gingival inflammation. Nevertheless, Saxlin et al. (14,16) suggest that gender does not appear to influ-ence the association between obesity and periodontitis. Consequently, on the basis of the results of our review, it is not possible to draw firm conclusions regarding the influence of gender upon the association between obe-sity and the development of periodontitis.Age has also been considered as a risk factor for perio-dontitis and has been observed that the prevalence and severity of periodontitis increase with age, probably as a consequence of the longer exposure of the periodon-tal tissues to bacterial plaque (39). However, since most of the included studies (8,9-14,16-18,20-22,24,26-29) adjusted the results according to age, the association between obesity and periodontitis seems to be inde-pendent of age. Regard to smoking habit, eleven stud-ies (8,16,18,20,30-34,37,38) excluded smokers, twelve adjusted the analysis for smoking as a confounding factor (9-13,22,24,26-29,35), and three studies divided the study population into smokers and non-smokers (7,14,17). In one of the latter, non-smoking obese women had a greater clinical attachment loss and greater bleed-ing and plaque index than non-obese and non-smoking women (7). Likewise, another two studies reported an association between the number of teeth with pathologi-cal periodontal pocket depths greater than or equal to 4 mm and BMI in a non-smoking subpopulation (14,21). Therefore, although smoking habit predisposes to peri-odontitis and contributes to periodontal tissue destruc-tion (39), it has been observed that smoking and obesity are independent risk indicators for periodontitis, and both conditions show a dose-dependent correlation to the risk of periodontitis (25).This review has focused on studies that only examine the association between obesity and periodontitis, without considering other systemic diseases or oral disorders. As well as, we considered whether the study included a control group for comparison versus the obese individu-als in order to establish a genuine association between obesity and periodontal disease. In this way, we conside-red whether the studies controlled for confounding fac-tors by excluding those subjects with diabetes mellitus or other concomitant inflammatory conditions capable of influencing the results. Of the 28 articles reviewed, 17 excluded diabetic patients (7,8,14,16,18,20,21,24,30-

38) and 11 controlled for diabetes as a confounding fac-tor (9-13,17,22,26-29). Nevertheless, it must be taken into account that despite the control of this confounding factor, those studies that did not exclude diabetic indi-viduals were susceptible to possible bias in the interpre-tation of the results obtained.Of the nine studies evaluating the effect of obesity upon the clinical and biochemical response to periodontal treatment, six (30,31,34,36-38) concluded that obesity does not exert a negative modifying effect upon the out-come of non-surgical periodontal treatment. In contrast, three articles (32,33,35) suggested that obesity exerts a negative effect upon periodontal treatment response. Therefore, to date, the effect of obesity on the response to periodontal treatment remains uncertain. Some of the reviewed studies analyzed proinflamma-tory molecules in serum, in an attempt to identify a pos-sible causal mechanism relating obesity to periodontitis. Most of the studies pointed to the inflammatory process as the possible cause. In obesity, adipocytes secrete proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α and IL-6, which stimulate the hepatic production of acute phase reactants such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and cause alterations in the host’s immune response – increasing the susceptibility to bacterial infection (6). Likewise, TNF-α is one of the first proinflammatory cytokines induced by the pathogens of periodontitis. TNF-α con-tributes to the onset of periodontitis through the stimu-lation of osteoclast formation, inducing alveolar bone destruction and connective tissue degradation (40). It is therefore believed that TNF-α mainly contributes to the early stages in the development of periodontal disease in obese individuals, not to the worsening and/or pro-gression of already established periodontitis. It has been reported that the serum TNF-α levels were not corre-lated to the severity of destructive periodontal disease in patients with BMI > 30 kg/m2 (24). Respect to IL-6, although in one study higher serum in-terleukin-6 (IL-6) levels were reported in obese individ-uals (7) and Saxlin et al. (18) found the serum IL-6 levels to be associated to periodontal infection, the association between IL-6 and periodontitis remains unclear, due to its dual pro- and antiinflammatory effects (40).Similarly, the role of other molecules in the associa-tion between obesity and periodontitis, such as leptin, adiponectin and resistin, remain to be clarified. Leptin plays a protective role in immune system function, and is present in larger amounts in minimally inflamed gin-gival tissue, decreasing its concentration at sites present-ing deeper pocket depths (3). Serum adiponectin - which exerts antiinflammatory effects - tends to decrease, and resistin - which exerts inflammatory effects - tends to increase in individuals with periodontitis (19).Likewise, it has been reported that obesity may be as-sociated to periodontitis through the increased produc-

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Fig. 2. Model of association between obesity and periodontal disease through inflammation, oxidative stress and insulin resistance.Abbreviations: CRP: C-reactive protein, Fbg: fibrinogen, TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor alpha, IL-6: inteleukin 6, IL-1: interleukin 1, ROS: reactive oxygen species, DM: diabetes mellitus, HDLc: HDL cholesterol.

tion of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Excessive ROS levels and a decrease in antioxidant substances in the periodontal tissues result in a chronic activation of in-flammation and tissue destruction (40). This chronic inflammation and oxidative stress could condition the development of IR. Recently, it has been suggested that IR plays a role in the pathogenesis of periodontitis (24). It has been seen that non-surgical periodontal treatment results in lowered serum TNF-α levels and decreased IR among the obese population (31,36).Figure 2 shows a model of association between obe-sity and periodontal disease through inflammation and oxidative stress. However, the pathophysiological mechanism whereby obesity affects the periodontium remains unclear, and this association may be bidirec-tional (3,40).

Most of the included studies involved a cross-sectional design, thereby precluding definition of the mechanisms underlying the association between both diseases. Fur-ther prospective studies are needed to confirm the causal relationship between obesity and periodontitis, as well as the pathophysiological mechanism involved in the association between both diseases.

ConclusionsThe results of this study indicate the existence of an association between obesity and periodontitis and al-though the causal mechanisms underlying this associa-tion remain unclear, the development of insulin resis-tance as a consequence of a chronic inflammatory state and oxidative stress could be implicated in the associa-tion between obesity and periodontitis. This evidence

points to the need for further prospective clinical stu-dies, designed to define the magnitude of this associa-tion and clarify the role of IR in the pathogenesis of periodontitis.

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Conflicts of InterestThe authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in relation to this study.

M.M-H is recipient of a predoctoral fellowship from the Regional Ministry Education of Valencian Community (ACIF/2015/226).